Collaborate Disseminate
The Disney-esque hues on bluespotted ribbontail rays come from a unique arrangement of nanostructures, say researchers. The findings, along with those gleaned from studying blue sharks, could help lead to new chemical-free color techniques.Continue Rea… Continue reading Ribbontail rays produce their dazzling blue spots without pigments
The Earth’s atmosphere has been blasted by the second strongest ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) to ever be observed. While its exact origins remain unknown, astrophysicists are pointing the finger at the Local Void, a fundamentally empty area of th… Continue reading Did the Local Void shoot a monster extreme-energy cosmic ray our way?
GPS is a powerful navigation technology, but it doesn’t work as well inside buildings, underground or underwater. Now engineers in Japan have developed and tested an alternative technology that uses cosmic rays to track movement beneath a building with… Continue reading GPS alternative taps cosmic rays for underground or underwater navigation
As if the ray fishes weren’t unusual enough already, it turns out that their sperm is also unique within the animal kingdom. Scientists have now created a robot inspired by those sperm, which may someday lead to smaller descendants that swim within the… Continue reading “All-wheel-drive” ray sperm inspire a better swimming robot
Scientists looking at shark and ray populations across the globe have published an alarming study depicting a rapid decline of these species over the past half century. This spells trouble not just for those animals in particular, but the ripple effect… Continue reading Shark and ray populations have plummeted by 71% in half a century
Scientists at the University of Exeter have turned to Twitter for a better picture of the effect ocean plastics are having on sharks and rays…
Continue Reading Scientists identify more than 1,000 sharks and rays tangled in ocean waste
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